SgtH3nry3
11-19-2005, 04:16 PM
This topic is about cranking up your framerate and/or graphics in games/applications even higher than you can configurate games within their own menu...
Ok, now this is a very old tip, but most people forget this excellent idea.
With certain drivers like those from nVidia, ATI, XGI Tech, Matrox, S3 and some of the common/adapted 3Dfx ones you can enable/disable and force certain filters/settings.
I don't have an ATI card so I'm going to explain you guys how you can reach those settings.
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6959/settings6kc.th.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6959/settings6kc.jpg)
Of course you can enable/disable, "let the application choose" or even force anti-aliasing (Interferentie in Dutch) and/or anisotropic filtering...
Now that is for some interesting, now taking you even to a higher level...
The (Level of Detail) LOD-bias, it means nothing more than in/decreasing the texture resolutions and the polycount on meshes your videocard renders on models which are placed on various distances.
(The polycount on models nearby are higher compared to those which are far, the same with texture resolutions).
Negative LOD (excellent quality, lower framerate):
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7720/lod82sj.th.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7720/lod82sj.jpg)
Positive LOD (bad quality, higher framerate):
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9109/lod81gu.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9109/lod81gu.jpg)
In the ATI drivers you can actually slide it from 8 (best performance) to -8 (best quality).
In the nVidia drivers you can only allow games to config themselves below 0.
This will work on older games and some new games...
The games which are really affected to LOD-biases are:
(All Quake 3/Goldsource/Source/Doom 3-engine based games)
Quake
Quake 2
Quake 3 (Team) Arena
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and all expansions
Call of Duty(: United Offensive)
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield Vietnam
Half-Life
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Opposing Forces
Unreal Tournament
UT2003/UT2004 (also on Red Orchestra)
America's Army
CounterStrike(: Condition Zero)
Day of Defeat
Ricochet
Team Fortress Classic
Half-Life 2
CounterStrike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Half-Life: Source
Doom 3
Prey
Chronicles of Riddick
Quake 4
and all their mods
I have been playing with it on multiple games, like Vietcong and Hidden & Dangerous 2 and I'm pleased its really a miracle.
If any one here has comments, feel free to reply...
After all, I don't know everything...
Ok, now this is a very old tip, but most people forget this excellent idea.
With certain drivers like those from nVidia, ATI, XGI Tech, Matrox, S3 and some of the common/adapted 3Dfx ones you can enable/disable and force certain filters/settings.
I don't have an ATI card so I'm going to explain you guys how you can reach those settings.
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6959/settings6kc.th.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6959/settings6kc.jpg)
Of course you can enable/disable, "let the application choose" or even force anti-aliasing (Interferentie in Dutch) and/or anisotropic filtering...
Now that is for some interesting, now taking you even to a higher level...
The (Level of Detail) LOD-bias, it means nothing more than in/decreasing the texture resolutions and the polycount on meshes your videocard renders on models which are placed on various distances.
(The polycount on models nearby are higher compared to those which are far, the same with texture resolutions).
Negative LOD (excellent quality, lower framerate):
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7720/lod82sj.th.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7720/lod82sj.jpg)
Positive LOD (bad quality, higher framerate):
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9109/lod81gu.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9109/lod81gu.jpg)
In the ATI drivers you can actually slide it from 8 (best performance) to -8 (best quality).
In the nVidia drivers you can only allow games to config themselves below 0.
This will work on older games and some new games...
The games which are really affected to LOD-biases are:
(All Quake 3/Goldsource/Source/Doom 3-engine based games)
Quake
Quake 2
Quake 3 (Team) Arena
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and all expansions
Call of Duty(: United Offensive)
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield Vietnam
Half-Life
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Opposing Forces
Unreal Tournament
UT2003/UT2004 (also on Red Orchestra)
America's Army
CounterStrike(: Condition Zero)
Day of Defeat
Ricochet
Team Fortress Classic
Half-Life 2
CounterStrike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Half-Life: Source
Doom 3
Prey
Chronicles of Riddick
Quake 4
and all their mods
I have been playing with it on multiple games, like Vietcong and Hidden & Dangerous 2 and I'm pleased its really a miracle.
If any one here has comments, feel free to reply...
After all, I don't know everything...